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The heritage of dress; being notes on the history and evolution of clothes (1908)

Webb, Wilfred Mark, 1868- · New York, The McClure Co.; London, E. Grant Richards · leaf 72

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Fig. 25.—A modern coat cufF Fig. 26.—Turned-back cuff, end of with buttons. seventeenth century (after Bonnart). To find an explanation of this feature we shall haveto go back again to the seventeenth century, when somuch was expended upon coats that it became advis-able to turn back the cuffs out…

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